Month: January 2017

From Chuck:
2016 was a great year for the DF65 Fleet in Texas! Local fleets continues to add boats and since its inception we have new skippers come and sail nearly every race.

The TXDF65 Series had 53 skippers race in the 3rd year of our regional series, including 19 Masters competitors (65+), and 3 ladies in 2016!

The support for the series is what makes this special, and the fact that folks make the commitment to travel to other venues and race with fellow skippers is what keep our fleets growing. Every year it seems the fleet gets closer, and the sailing is more and more competitive.

Congratulations to Chris Macaluso from Lone Star Model Yacht Club for successfully defending his TXDF65 title for the third straight year!

The Series leaders would like to give special recognition to Russ Gardner & Fernando Campoverde for attending EVERY TX DF Series event this year! It is this kind of support and dedication to radio sailing in Texas that will keep us successful and growing! Thanks guys!

The plan is for each city in the regional series will host a 2 day regatta once during the year. Day 1 will be DF65s Day 2 will be DF95s ( just like the successful White Rock Cup Last year!) We will then alternate months with DF65 races & DF95 Races in each city.

Next year we will also add San Antonio to the regional series when they host a DF95 race in April!

From a sailing standpoint, it doesn’t get any better than the weather we had at the RG65 Region 5 Championship on Saturday in Lewisville TX! We had 15 boats sail, in 17 races , and we had including quite a few new skippers to the fleet!

Winds out of the south at 10-15 and a really long course made for some exciting racing. Despite threatening clouds, the temps were great and we never got rained on.This event was a mixed fleet with Open RG65s sailing with the DragonForce 65s so we broke out the DF65s for a separate category. Team Houston dominated the DragonForce 65 scoring with Chris Macaluso winning the day, sailing on B rig half the day, closely followed by Bruce Huckaba, Craig Scott, & Ferrnando Campoverde capturing the top 4 spots in the DF65 Series scoring. Mauricio Dantas started the day sailing his home built RG65 but he ended up switching to his Df65 after race 6 so we scored him with DNS race 1-5 for TX DF65 Series points. TRYC welcomed our new transplant from Florida , Carlos Suarez, who borrowed my DF65 and did really well! The most exciting thing about this regatta was the number of new skippers we had sailing for their first RC sailing regatta ever! Ken Young from Fort Worth, Willie Smith from Carrollton, and two ladies Caryl Hugdahl and my fantastic wife Carrie LeMahieu. This brings our total number of skippers sailed in the Series up to 48 skippers this year!!! Our next TX DF65 Series event is in Houston October 15… hope to see ya’ll there!